This proposed regulation will have the opposite of the intended affect by playing into the hands of terrorists, violent criminals, and the criminally insane. We have had no shootings in state agencies and this prohibition on those with a concealed handgun permit, some of whom have active and ongoing threats to their lives, is entirely without any justification and needlessly and recklessly endangers innocent lives.

Disarming good citizens (who are the only ones likely to obey the prohibition) does not make them safer.

I am a retired, former DWI employee whom, I feel, realizes far more than our governor, the inherent dangers of creating a "hunting preserve of unarmed persons" for not just the criminal element in society, but also for the "budding" terrorists (both international and home grown). I also believe that our governor is weighing public safety against his obligation to payoff political debts to extra-state campaign contributitions and we Virginians are reduced to the level of "pawns" without value lifewise..

Importantly the Governor has no authority for this regulation. If the General Assembly wanted the Governor to have such power, they would have granted it to him explicitly, as is required constitutionally.

This proposed regulation is a solution for which there is no problem. It endangers state employees, law abiding citizens, and the innocent by making state buildings a safe zone for terrorists, criminals, and the criminally insane to conduct their evil and savage actions.

This regulations should not be approved and the emergency regulation withdrawn.

Please extended the comment period for another 30 days.


Respectfully submitted,

Robert W. Meadows